Hans Felber

Hans Felber (8 July 1889-8 March 1962) was a General der Infanterie of the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography
Hans Felber was born on 8 July 1889 in Wiesbaden, Bavaria, German Empire. Felber served in the Imperial German Army during World War I, and on 1 April 1932 he became a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic. On 25 October 1940 Felber was given command of the XVIII Armeekorps and led an army group after 21 May 1942 on the Eastern Front of World War II against the Soviet Union. From 26 September to 27 October 1944 he led Army Group Serbia during the war with Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslav Partisans and then during the fight against the Red Army during the Belgrade Offensive. At the end of the war, he was commander of the German 7th Army, and he surrendered to the United States in western Bohemia and the Bavarian Forest on 8 May 1945.